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What should a CMS campus lease for? How’s about $1 a year (access required)

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: August 19,2011

It could be one of the greatest real estate bargains in Charlotte history: 33,347 square feet of space on seven acres for only $1 a year in rent. That proposal for Tryon Hills Pre-K Center in north Charlotte is among others that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is entertaining for nearly a dozen shuttered buildings that CMS wants [...]


Closure controversy (access required)

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: November 2,2010

For many Charlotte-area parents, Mike Raible is the bad guy. As executive director of planning and project management for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, he’s in charge of the CMS program known as the Case for Continuous Improvement. It’s a nice, positive-sounding name, but the program’s mission is to determine what CMS schools to close and consolidate in [...]